1 Add the shrimp to the boiling water. 2  Cook for 1 to 3 minutes or until the shrimp are pink and opaque. 3  Drain and rinse shrimp in a colander under cold running water.
When quotation marks are put around a word in this way, they are called scare quotes. The rules for using quotation marks around a single word for emphasis have changed since people began using word processors for their writing. If a word needs to be emphasized but is not being quoted, you should avoid putting the word in quotes and use italics instead. âTheyâre,â âtheir,â and âthereâ are easily confused because theyâre homophones.
Because this was originally done with single quotes in the source material (itâs a journalism convention to do so for a quote within a quote) and might be confusing with double quotes, it should remain as single quotes. 6. DO leave quotation marks around a quote within a larger block quote featuring other text âi.e.